Gold Leaf Annapolis, House Numbers on Your Glass Transom

We gild house numbers by hand.

Your historic home in downtown Annapolis will look best with traditional gold leaf house numbers. We install gold leaf numbers in Annapolis, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. At Designs & Signs, LLC, our reputation rests on mastering the craft of gold leaf glass gilding. We would love to gild traditional gold leaf transom numbers for you by hand. The process takes time, but there is no other way to do it well.

The Mirror Effect of Gold Leaf on Glass

Carefully consider this photo for a moment, if you will. Can you see the homes across the street? They reflect clearly in the glass because of the light differential. Now, take a closer look at the number eight, and you’ll see the mirror effect in detail. The gold leaf number reflects the chimney perfectly. Glass gilding with water and gelatin is how we achieve this effect. Now, look at the tiny scrolls on either side of the address. Of course, you can see right away that there is a difference.

Those scrolls are the dingbats, and they are burnished. For this piece, we created the burnished gold leaf finish on glass by using TotalBoat Lust marine varnish to size the glass. Look at the scroll on the right-hand side of this photo. The house in the background disappears into the scroll. There is no mirror reflection of the house in that part of the gold leaf.

Choosing a Font for your Gold Leaf Annapolis House Numbers.

Our gilder will arrive at your home in Annapolis at 7 am, and they will finish your transom by one or two in the afternoon. Between setup, travel, and time on site, it’s a full day’s work for one person. To get started, we send you fonts to review. Please choose only one font! Once you make your choice, we will send you back a drawing with measurements. We’ll also need to know the size of your transom, and a photo of the transom is helpful too. Hopefully, you can send us those by email.

Our standard pricing includes numbers up to five inches tall. Indeed, we can make taller numbers, but this could increase the price. Over the years, we’ve found that a 5-inch number is always big enough, and it limits our time on site to about five to six hours. Gold leaf Annapolis numbers are not easy to create, so making them taller than five inches generally pushes the job into overtime, hence the price change.

183 – Gold Leaf Address with dingbats.

Sometimes customers ask us to add a little something extra to their transom, something special and unique, something to set their home apart from others on the block. Of course, we can add distinctive outlines, as we did at this home in Washington, DC. However, we can also add dingbats and flourishes of a whimsical sort, as we have done for 183. It’s a happy-looking home with a few small decorative elements, and this transom stands out! Bright borders and such are just another great way to make gold leaf Annapolis numbers look their best on your historic home!

Ask questions about glass gilding.

We have done our best to provide numerous photos and plenty of targeted information about our gold leaf numbers and glass gilding projects. Using our website to learn about our craft should be helpful. However, we are confident that you will have questions about what we do. If so, please shoot us a message online, and we’ll help you out as fast as we can. Usually, you’ll receive a response within 24 hours.

See more of our glass gilding: Golden House Numbers, Glass Gilding – Cafe Normandie, and Gold Address Numbers – 1204.